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3rd ECPNM European Competition for Live-Electronic Music Projects..

Details on the 3rd ECPNM European Competition for Live-Electronic Music Projects, with a deadline of March 1st, 2010, one can find here.
Members of EFA and ECPNM are invited to present before 28 February 2010, proposals for collaboration creative projects in the field of new music for the next EFA/ECPNM joint ARS NOVA meeting 26-28 March 2010. Share your project with EFA members, ECPNM members, European Composers’ Forum and find during the ARS NOVA conference partners from all over Europe and beyond! read more

ALEX NOWITZ wins 2nd ECPNM European Competition for Live-Electronic Music Projects..
More than 40 projects from all over Europe were proposed for the 2nd ECPNM European Competition for Live-Electronic Music Projects. An international jury selected 6 projects; on 4 October they were premiered at the final concert of the ISCM World New Music Days 2009 in Gothenburg. The jury awarded Alex Nowitz (Germany) as winner of the competition. He performed himself in his work "Minotaurus" (for singer/performer, live-el. gestural controllers).

The following works were selected for this final:
Anne Parlevliet (Netherlands) - "Open" for piano & live-electronics
Katarina Glowicka (Netherlands/Poland) - "Turbulence" for piano, live-electronics & video
Panayiotis Kokoras (Greece) - "Hit the beat" for amplified snare drum and live-electronics
Jan Trützschler (Netherlands) - "Cut" for paper, percussion and electronics
Alex Nowitz (Germany) - "Minotaurus" for singer/performer, live-electronic gestural controllers
Maurits Fennis (Netherlands) - "Proteon", interface, software, algae

Pianist Sonsoles Alonso performed in the works by Anne Parlevliet and Katarina Glowicka, and percussionist Jonny Axelsson performed in the works by Jan Trütschler and Panayiotis Kokoras. For technical reasons the work by Maurits Fennis couldn’t be performed on 4 October. All other works were recorded by Swedish Radio and broadcast some days later.

The winning project (and some of the other finalists) will be programmed in the festivals of several members of the ECPNM in the Netherlands, Germany, Portugal, Italy in the coming year. The winner furthermore receives a residency in the EMS studio in Stockholm.


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In 2006 the ECPNM called for project proposals which demonstrate in an innovative way new possibilities of the connection of instruments and live-electronics. 29 Proposals were received, coming from young composers and musicians of 14 different countries. Six projects were selected by a jury (representatives of the above mentioned organisations); these selected projects were premiered on 8 September at the Felix Meritis concert hall during the International Gaudeamus Music Week 2007 in Amsterdam, where also the annual General Assembly of ECPNM took place.

After the performance the jury selected #Un4scene# (2007, 15') by the German Duo Con:Fusion (Sascha and Marcia Lemke) as prize winner. During the season 2007/2008 the prize winning project were programmed by the organising partners.

The other selected works were:
· Hannes Raffaseder (au, 1970) + Kurt Hörbst : staTdT_kunst: Amsterdam_08.09.07 (2007, 20')
· Antonino Chiaramonte (it, 1962) + Nora Tigges Mazzone + Renato Vecchio: ENVOYS (2007, 13')
· Cathy van Eck (nl/be, 1979): Groene ruis (2007, 10')
· Malle Maltis (ee, 1977) + Jandra Puusepp + Tammo Sumera: Lendajad / The Flyers (2005-2007, 10')
· Simão Costa (pt, 1979) + Agata Mandillo: p_ano (2006, 12')

Biography:
Marcia Lemke-Kern studied performance and composition in London, Hamburg and Paris. She performs as a singer and has composed for soloists and ensembles with and without the use of electronics, for concert performance, dance, theatre and pedagogical settings.
Sascha Lino Lemke studied composition, electronic music and music theory in Hamburg, Lüneburg and Paris. He has been awarded several prizes such as the Stipendium Preis and "Awards of the Cities of Hamburg
and Dresden" . His works have been performed by many soloists and ensembles all around the world.

Sascha Lino Lemke was just a week ago selected for a three-month Villa Massimo-Scholarship, which he will spend in the summer in the Villa Massimo Casa Baldi. Lemke to this tribute: "I am obviously very happy about the scholarship and will among others compose an orchestra piece for the University Orchestra and the music for the opening ceremony of the Klangwerktage 2009 with the Ensemble Resonanz which will be premiered in the autumn in one of the huge spatial installation created by the HCU . "
The fellowships enable highly gifted artists, through an extended stay in Italy to develop artistically. Members of the Villa Massimo jury in music (composition) were Professor Peter Michael Hamel, Julia Spinola and Walter Zimmermann.


 The new Executive Committee of the ECPNM consists of:
Helmut W. Erdmann (Germany) - chairman
Giovanni Trovalusci (Italy), Miguel Azguime (Portugal), Tapio Tuomela (Finland) and Marianne Penz van Stappershoef (Austria) - members
Henk Heuvelmans (the Netherlands) - secretary-general 

Honorary Member
Klaus Ager is honored with the title Honorary Member of the ECPNM. Ager
was one of the founders of the ECPNM and has been active in the board
and as a member for many years. Ager will be in contact with the ECPNM
being the president of the European Composrs Forum.


 

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